The Coach is always promising to put some BBQ sauce on his boxers' ribs to teach us to keep our elbows down. I figured itwould be good to give him my favorite flavor, Bull's Eye Original, along with a T-shirt to associate a great coach with a great brand.

Below, left, coach is suggesting the approximate
area where the hot sauce will stick.

About the sauce, Cook's Illustrated (which I think is the best cooking magazine there is) wrote (June 2017)
"In the end, our winner was once again the aptly named Bull’s-Eye Original BBQ Sauce. This moderately sweet, tomatoey sauce offered just enough spice and smoke,
producing a well-balanced medley of flavors with no specific flavor dominating. Our winning product was delicious and versatile, and it wasn’t too thick or thin. We’ll be using this palate-pleasing sauce all summer long." (Quoted from www.cooksillustrated.com.)

Always honored to salute my great boxing coach, Israel Gonzales, the man behind Izzyduzitfitness. On Oct. 31, 2017, we sparred round #840 (date of pictures left & center above). We started sparring in late October 2015, so it took us 2 years to rack up this number of rounds. It's a good thing the coach can modify his punches or we would have had to stop about the time we started.
Coach Izzy and I crossed the
700-round mark July 5, 2017. Then we switched from 2-minute rounds (doing 6 rounds per session) to 3-minute rounds (4 rounds per session). We did 5 3-minute rounds for a couple of sessions, and then moved up to 6 3-min. rounds, twice a week.

Pictures above August 2017.Celebrating 600 rounds back in April 2017--seems like a long time ago!
Here's Coach Israel Gonzalez with some members of his boxing team (September 19, 2017).

Shots after sparring at Extreme Kung Fu @ 5951 N. Clark, Chicago.
April 3
May 3 & 10
June 7
July 26
Besides having a lot to learn about boxing, I have a lot to learn about posing for boxing pictures!
Aug 2, 9, & 30
Sept 13 & 24
Oct 11, 18, 22, & 29
10/18/2016 a lucky day for me, actually landed one!Big fun & bragging rights, small cost. Coach says I hit myself with my own gloves, but . . . .
September 2015 - May 2016
When we started out, coach had a "dry" look at the end of our sessions (upper & lower left), but not any more.

Sparring a few
One door closes at the EBC, another opens
End of the line: Evanston Boxing Club closed at the end of July 2015. Some last pictures
here: Allen & Andrian, last EBC workout of many.
A little history: some
random snaps around the EBC 2011-13 ·
Andrian and Allen @ the EBC December 2014 (below)The
Evanston Boxing Club
Boxers who have trained here include Russell (Rocky) Fiore and
Paul Littleton (here in an amazing video). You can find them both on Facebook and
at BoxRec--Paul
and Russell (requires login, but it's free).
July 2014